Steve Jobs has reportedly shown an interest in the user interface work developed by UK company IXI Ltd, run by Ray Anderson, previously of Torch Computers Ltd, and Interfirm Graphics Systems of Santa Clara, California, has become the first announced customer for the company’s X.Desktop graphical user interface. The agreement allows Interfirm to offer the […]
Steve Jobs has reportedly shown an interest in the user interface work developed by UK company IXI Ltd, run by Ray Anderson, previously of Torch Computers Ltd, and Interfirm Graphics Systems of Santa Clara, California, has become the first announced customer for the company’s X.Desktop graphical user interface. The agreement allows Interfirm to offer the product integrated into its own Intel 80386-based workstation products running Unix System V.3, or to license it for use on other 80386-based products. IXI’s X.Desktop co-exists with the normal Unix shell and menu-driven utilities, and provides a configurable interface using windows, icons and a mouse, running under X Window version 11. Both companies presented the product at last week’s Open Software Foundation meeting in Boston. And an announcement that Locus Computing Corp, Englewood, California, will be using the interface as a front-end to its software is expected within the next few weeks: Locus products currently include the Merge 386 Unix
